Empress Catherine II of Russia [Catherine the Great]

(1729-1796)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796 LBT ID: Catherine2 VIAF ID: 89590804 LOC ID: n80046091	B/BAP: 1729-05-02 DIED: 1796-11-17
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Russian reformer and patron of the arts who married Peter III in 1746 and came to the throne in 1762.
REFERENCES TO Empress Catherine II of Russia [Catherine the Great]: Robert Southey to John Rickman, 22 March 1805 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 7 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 23 April 1815 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Byron's Don Juan Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 42 Life of Byron: 1815 Julius Millingen, Memoirs of the Affairs of Greece (London: John Rodwell, 1831) Chapter XXXI Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XI. 1804-1805 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 19 Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 71 Chapter X. Found 1: ¶ 27 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. XI. 1824-1832 Found 1: ¶ 11 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1814-1815. Found 1: ¶ 22